168.608 Certifying and recording names of delegates; notification of delegates; certification of delegates to county conventions; definition.

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Sec. 608.

(1)The county clerk shall certify the names of the electors elected as delegates, naming the political party upon whose ballot the delegates were elected.

(2)The county clerk shall maintain a record of those elected as delegates among the records of the clerk's office.

(3)No later than 7 days following the primary election, the county clerk shall notify each delegate elected of his or her election as delegate.

(4)The county clerk shall certify the following to the chairperson of the committee of each political party of the county:

(a)The delegates elected by the political party as delegates to the county conventions.

(b)The names of all persons nominated as candidates of a political party for county office and for state legislative office who are delegates at large under section 599(5), when those names become available to the county clerk.

(5)As used in this section, "persons nominated as candidates of a political party for county office and for state legislative office who are delegates at large under section 599(5)" means incumbent county officials, incumbent state legislators, and unsuccessful candidates for county offices and state legislative offices who were candidates at the last prior regular or special election held for the respective office.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 60, Imd. Eff. Feb. 22, 1972 ;-- Am. 1975, Act 325, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1976 ;-- Am. 1983, Act 181, Imd. Eff. Oct. 25, 1983 ;-- Am. 1988, Act 116, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1988 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 611 , Eff. Mar. 29, 2019

Compiler's Notes: Section 2 of Act 116 of 1988 provides:“If any portion of this amendatory act or the application of this amendatory act to any person or circumstances shall be found to be invalid by a court, the invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions or applications of this amendatory act which can be given effect without the invalid portion or application, if the remaining portions are not determined by the court to be inoperable, and to this end this amendatory act is declared to be severable.”

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